Today I wrote my English 12 exam. My last exam of high school. It consisted of 3 texts which had 10 MC and 1 written response each. There was then a multi paragraph response in which I had to compare the 3 texts, then I had an essay, which I was given a topic for.
Normally, these essay topics are bland, vague, but easy to respond to.
This year's topic was "Science has the potential to prove that religion is false"
I saw it there, staring at me in bold on the top of the page.
Are you -blam!-ing serious?
The only good part about it was that we did not have to [i]agree[/i] with the statement. And I opposed it just so.
What are your thoughts on this? I know religion and atheism are taboo topics often subject to flame here, so I thought I'd post this little fire starter for you.
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Science doesn't have to disprove that which has never been proven.
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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot]Sorry, but we've been trough this already.[/url]
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"Why can't we be friends" We being science and religion
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Edited by HurtfulTurkey: 6/21/2013 4:17:15 AMIt's always fun to be a bit meta and actually criticize the prompt of an essay, like by saying something along the lines of: "Even asking the question of whether science can disprove religion shows a fundamental ignorance of both, and the relationship they share. It would be irresponsible and disingenuous to imply that religion and science are mutually exclusive."
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I disagree. Science can disprove religious ideas such as creationism, but it cannot disprove religion in its entirety.
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I think both religion and science can coexist.
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Absolutely, I agree with the statement.